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Bug 505198 - It's not possible to send mails to a domain with an ü,ä,ö in it
It's not possible to send mails to a domain with an ü,ä,ö in it
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 486018
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.28.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[smtp]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-12-23 11:30 UTC by 1981Neo
Modified: 2010-09-30 06:06 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description 1981Neo 2007-12-23 11:30:17 UTC 
In Germany, it is allowed to use domains like www.frisch-geschlüpft.de. If you've got an email address with the letter 'ü' in it, you will see an error that says: isabelle.hiry@frisch-geschlüpft.de gescheitert: Cannot resolve your domain {mp058}

Therefore, it's not possible to send any mail to an domain with an non Ascii-codepage...


Distribution: Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy)
Gnome Release: 2.20.1 2007-10-19 (Ubuntu)
BugBuddy Version: 2.18.1
Comment 1 André Klapper 2007-12-23 12:35:26 UTC 
/me wonders if using ä,ü.ö,ß has been standartized already...
Comment 2 1981Neo 2007-12-27 16:40:21 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> /me wonders if using ä,ü.ö,ß has been standartized already...
> 

Hi Andre!

It has been standardized: It must be one year since I use it in firefox...and since the standard is ready. 

The encoding is done after the IDN(A) (Internationalizing Domain Names (in Applications)). The original address is converted in an ACE (Asci Compatible Encoding) string through a PUnicode translation function. P.E. müller will be xn--mller-kva.

Sorry for my late answer, but christmas is time consuming :-)

Greetings, Thomas Beck
Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:33:44 UTC 
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 4 noel 2009-07-22 17:15:22 UTC 
the encoding of umlauts is done with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
IDNA (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications, RFC3490)

Linux applications are using libidn. Firefox is able to handle these domains without problems.

A dupe of this bugreport is Bug #486018

Without support of IDN evolution users are not able to mail to parts of the world.:(
Comment 5 André Klapper 2009-07-24 20:07:53 UTC 
...so this still applies to 2.26 I assume?
If so, feel free to update the Version field.
Comment 6 noel 2010-04-11 09:03:06 UTC 
it still applies to 2.28.3
I cannot change the Version of this bug.
Comment 7 Bharath Acharya 2010-09-30 06:06:27 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 486018 ***